running on tracks, there was the Lombard Steam Log Hauler. This wacky steam-locomotive-like contraption used tank-style tracks instead of railroad tracks to get around, freeing it up to go ...

But first, let's look in on one of the last steam logging railroads in the world. It's located in e of the far valleys of the Carpathian Mountains in Romania, close to the Ukrainian border.

Logging railroads were built to transport the timber to the sawmills. One steam locomotive specifically designed for these backwoods operations is under restoration at the Fort Missoula museum.

Freight on the Iron Range The Canadian-owned Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific line (now part of Canadian National) links the ...

The trains were pulled by geared steam locomotives, primarily five Shay locomotives, two bought new in 1917 and 1919, and three transferred from other White Mountain logging railroads.

For 47 years, the Camp 6 Logging Museum at Point Defiance Park has kept a window open on Western Washington’s steam-logging history.

The historic steam logging locomotive, used for logging operations in Union County for three decades through the late 1950s, traveled by BNSF Railroad on a flatcar to its new home at the Oregon ...

The occasional artifact still can be found along the right-of-ways, reminding us of a time when steam locomotives and logging trains rumbled through the San Bernardino Mountains.

Visitors flock to "West Virginia's Williamsburg" for a ride on the Cass Scenic Railroad. The grade can be steep —9% at some spots, with geared locomotives providing the power — but the ...

Logging railroads in the late 1800s allowed more timberlands to be harvested, and the various mills exported even more lumber than they had in the era before the Civil War.

The Oregon Historical Society and the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation announced Friday the permanent transfer of the Mount Emily Shay #1 steam locomotive from the City of Prineville Railway to the ...